Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 32 19
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 346 276 393
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.08% 7.30% 7.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.89% 37.55% 28.96%
Number of salaries quoted 216 113 236
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,603 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -18.52%
75th Percentile £65,156 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,052 735 1,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.46% 19.45% 26.20%
Number of salaries quoted 809 430 974
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,700 £38,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,750 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% +0.91% -5.17%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxfordshire +4 150 £60,000 -4.00% 80
Berkshire +17 127 £60,000 +26.26% 74
Buckinghamshire -5 69 £50,500 -22.31% 46
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.73%) Confluence
3 3 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.58%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.58%) WordPress
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 41 (11.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.45%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.87%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.87%) Simulink
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.29%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Raiser’s Edge
2 3 (0.87%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 154 (44.51%) Azure
2 126 (36.42%) AWS
3 56 (16.18%) Azure AI
4 51 (14.74%) Power Platform
5 32 (9.25%) GitHub
6 30 (8.67%) GCP
7 25 (7.23%) Azure Sentinel
8 18 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (4.34%) Serverless
11 14 (4.05%) Cloudflare
12 13 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (3.47%) OpenShift
14 10 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (2.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (10.98%) Firewall
2 33 (9.54%) DNS
3 17 (4.91%) VPN
4 14 (4.05%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.89%) DHCP
6 9 (2.60%) Wireless
7 8 (2.31%) SSL
7 8 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.73%) HTTP
8 6 (1.73%) VLAN
9 5 (1.45%) MQTT
10 4 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.87%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.58%) Internet
12 2 (0.58%) IPv4
12 2 (0.58%) IPv6
12 2 (0.58%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.29%) Broadband
13 1 (0.29%) DNSSEC
13 1 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.16%) Power BI
2 37 (10.69%) Tableau
3 29 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.76%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.31%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.02%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.73%) Airbyte
7 6 (1.73%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.45%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.45%) MySQL
9 4 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.16%) Metadata
9 4 (1.16%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.16%) Redis
10 3 (0.87%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.58%) GIS
11 2 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.58%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 47 (13.58%) Git
2 25 (7.23%) GitLab
3 19 (5.49%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.34%) JIRA
5 8 (2.31%) JUnit
5 8 (2.31%) LabVIEW
6 7 (2.02%) JMeter
6 7 (2.02%) Mockito
7 6 (1.73%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.45%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.16%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.87%) PetaLinux
10 3 (0.87%) Polyspace
10 3 (0.87%) VectorCAST
11 2 (0.58%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.58%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.58%) Mocha
11 2 (0.58%) Selenium
12 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 145 (41.91%) Social Skills
2 44 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (9.83%) Manufacturing
4 24 (6.94%) Finance
5 14 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (3.47%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.18%) Aerospace
8 10 (2.89%) Electronics
8 10 (2.89%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.89%) Retail
9 9 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.31%) Automotive
11 7 (2.02%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.45%) Legal
13 4 (1.16%) Banking
13 4 (1.16%) Games
14 3 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.87%) Marketing
15 2 (0.58%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 85 (24.57%) Software Engineer
2 73 (21.10%) Python Engineer
3 62 (17.92%) Analyst
4 55 (15.90%) Python Software Engineer
4 55 (15.90%) Senior
5 40 (11.56%) Data Analyst
6 37 (10.69%) C++ Software Engineer
7 34 (9.83%) Junior
8 33 (9.54%) Junior Analyst
8 33 (9.54%) Junior Data Analyst
9 29 (8.38%) Developer
10 28 (8.09%) C# Software Engineer
11 25 (7.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 24 (6.94%) Network Engineer
13 22 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (6.07%) Data Engineer
15 20 (5.78%) AWS Software Engineer
16 17 (4.91%) Java Engineer
17 16 (4.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 14 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (10.40%) React
2 27 (7.80%) REST
3 23 (6.65%) JSON
4 19 (5.49%) Django
5 15 (4.34%) HTML
6 12 (3.47%) NumPy
6 12 (3.47%) Pandas
6 12 (3.47%) XML
6 12 (3.47%) YAML
7 11 (3.18%) Node.js
8 10 (2.89%) Web Services
9 9 (2.60%) Spring
9 9 (2.60%) Spring Boot
9 9 (2.60%) Vue
10 8 (2.31%) CSS
10 8 (2.31%) Jinja
11 7 (2.02%) .NET
11 7 (2.02%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (2.02%) Hibernate
11 7 (2.02%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
1 25 (7.23%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (6.07%) Distributed Computing
3 16 (4.62%) Security Operations Centre
4 14 (4.05%) Algorithms
5 12 (3.47%) Life Science
6 11 (3.18%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.18%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.89%) Robotics
8 9 (2.60%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (2.60%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (2.31%) Fibre Optics
9 8 (2.31%) IoT
9 8 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.31%) PKI
10 7 (2.02%) Client/Server
10 7 (2.02%) Hackathon
10 7 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (2.02%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 81 (23.41%) Linux
2 33 (9.54%) Windows
3 5 (1.45%) Debian
4 4 (1.16%) Unix
5 3 (0.87%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.87%) Gentoo
5 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.29%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (33.82%) AI
2 102 (29.48%) Software Engineering
3 87 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (23.99%) CI/CD
5 67 (19.36%) Agile
6 62 (17.92%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (16.47%) DevOps
8 43 (12.43%) Analytics
9 41 (11.85%) Computer Science
10 39 (11.27%) Containerisation
11 38 (10.98%) Test Automation
12 37 (10.69%) Machine Learning
13 36 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (10.12%) Data Modelling
15 34 (9.83%) Full-Stack Development
15 34 (9.83%) SIEM
16 29 (8.38%) Infrastructure as Code
17 28 (8.09%) Mentoring
17 28 (8.09%) Microservices
18 27 (7.80%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (25.72%) SQL
2 67 (19.36%) C++
3 51 (14.74%) C#
4 50 (14.45%) JavaScript
5 43 (12.43%) PowerShell
6 39 (11.27%) Java
7 37 (10.69%) TypeScript
8 32 (9.25%) Bash
9 14 (4.05%) C
10 12 (3.47%) Go
10 12 (3.47%) Rust
11 11 (3.18%) MATLAB
12 9 (2.60%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.73%) Groovy
13 6 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (1.45%) Apex Code
15 4 (1.16%) Perl
15 4 (1.16%) Ruby
16 3 (0.87%) VBA
17 2 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 81 (23.41%) Degree
2 57 (16.47%) Azure Certification
3 51 (14.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (10.69%) Security Cleared
5 33 (9.54%) SC Cleared
6 26 (7.51%) Master's Degree
7 15 (4.34%) CompTIA Security+
7 15 (4.34%) PhD
8 9 (2.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (2.31%) CISSP
10 7 (2.02%) CompTIA CySA+
11 6 (1.73%) GCIA
11 6 (1.73%) GIAC
12 5 (1.45%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.45%) CCNA CyberOps
12 5 (1.45%) CEH
13 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.87%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.25%) QA
2 19 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.31%) GDPR
4 7 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.45%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.87%) ECSS
6 3 (0.87%) IEC 61508
6 3 (0.87%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.58%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.58%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 48 (13.87%) Docker
2 25 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (6.94%) Hyper-V
4 18 (5.20%) Active Directory
5 16 (4.62%) KVM
6 6 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.73%) vSphere
7 2 (0.58%) iptables
8 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (12.72%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.51%) Terraform
3 15 (4.34%) Graylog
4 12 (3.47%) Ansible
5 10 (2.89%) Grafana
5 10 (2.89%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.31%) Kibana
6 8 (2.31%) Proxmox
6 8 (2.31%) ZABBIX
7 6 (1.73%) Argo
8 4 (1.16%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.16%) Packer
8 4 (1.16%) Podman
9 3 (0.87%) Istio
10 1 (0.29%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.29%) QRadar
10 1 (0.29%) WMI
Vendors
1 91 (26.30%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.23%) VMware
3 13 (3.76%) Cisco
4 12 (3.47%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.89%) Splunk
6 9 (2.60%) Databricks
7 8 (2.31%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (2.31%) IBM
7 8 (2.31%) Oracle
7 8 (2.31%) Veeam
8 7 (2.02%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.45%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.45%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.45%) New Relic
9 5 (1.45%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.16%) F5
10 4 (1.16%) Google
10 4 (1.16%) Juniper
10 4 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.16%) Xilinx